Using traditional crossbreeding, researchers have created a new strain of rice that produces much less methane, a potent ...

With an increasing frequency and intensity of flooding events and an eye to capitalize on a common rice production technique, ...

Water is used to flood rice fields in order to harvest the grain, not to grow it. Wild rice actually grows in the water and only the flowering head of the grass sticks up over the water's surface.

ARBUCKLE, Calif.—On a misty December morning, a few dozen sandhill cranes stood in shallow water in the middle of a flooded rice field in the Sacramento Valley, about 90 miles north of San ...

When the rice fields were flooded, and arsenic was taken up ... by making soils less acidic and washing spinach leaves after harvest. Lead is harder to remove, but washing spinach leaves with ...

DA The Department of Agriculture will release 150,000 metric tons of National Food Authority rice stocks as part of the ...

The heavy downpours in the North, North-Central, and Eastern provinces throughout the week disrupted the ongoing paddy ...

which were already grown in 12.8 percent of the country’s rice fields in 2022. One of these, the Niigata-born Shinnosuke variety, had 97.3 percent of its harvest classified as first-grade rice.

CHIANG RAI, Thailand — A red dragon, a feline deity and dogs and cats cover Tanyapong Jaikham's rice paddies in northern Thailand, a living tribute in rice plants to flooding that inundated ...

called "field chasing ducks" to eat their way through rice paddies after a harvest. "They help eat golden apple snails and the remains of unwanted rice husks that remain in the field from the last ...